An Evaluation of an Online Bilingual Corpus for the Self-Learning of Legal English.

Fan, May; Xunfeng, Xu

System, v30 n1 p47-63 Mar 2002

Introduces a bilingual corpus of legal and documentary texts in English and Chinese and reports a study that sought to evaluate the usefulness of the corpus in the self-learning of legal English. Subjects were Chinese students doing a degree in translation at a university in Hong Kong, where English common law is still used since the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China in 1997. (Author/VWL)